Sanitary water-closet seat



Sept. 30 I924. 1 1,510,126

' a F. YEAKEL SANITARY WATER CLOSET SEAT Filed Dec. 28, 1923 x g Y INVENTOR. W 5 V ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 30, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT F. YEAKEL, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

SANITARY WATER-CLOSET SEAT.

Application filed December 23, 1922. Serial No. 609,412.

. a citizen of the United States, and residing in the city of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered the new, useful, and Improved Sanitary ater-Closet Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a new and improved sanitary water-closet seat.

Generally speaking, my invention relates to that type of water-closet seat which is provided with a protective covering of paper, such paper being renewed, after each use, by unwinding fresh paper from a supply roll and winding up the used paper on a receiving roll, the paper being provided with properly spaced apertures which are adapted to be brought into registration with the seat opening.

More specifically my invention comprises a new and improved form of sanitary watercloset seat which may be stamped or otherwise formed of metal. I provide at either side of the seat new and improved housings wherein are removably mounted the supply and receiving rolls for the apertured paper.

I also provide new and improved means for detachably mounting the rollers in their housing.

Other novel features of construction and arrangement of parts will appear from the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. l is a side elevation of a water-closet to which my improved seat is applied; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a per spective of the seat shown dismounted from the closet and with the paper and rollers removed; Fig. l is a section taken along the line IVIV in Fig. 3 but on a smaller scale; Fig. 5 is an enlarged, broken section taken along the line VV in Fig. 2; Fig. 6 is a view showing the blank from which the friction grips are formed, and Fig. 7 shows a portion of the paper web.

The following is a detailed description of the drawings.

A represents a closet bowl, and B represents my improved closet seat.

Said seat is preferably pressed or otherwise formed of metal enameled in white or some other attractive color. The seat is provided with the usual buttal orifice 1, flanged downwardly to present a smooth surface,

and the top of the seat at the front of the orifice is preferably concaved, as atQ, at either side of the medial line, to fit the legs. At the front and rear the seat is provided with a downwardly turned flange 3, the hinge bolts 4: being attached to the rear flange.

The extremities of the flanges 3 are enlarged to form the ends 5 of the roll housings whose tops are inclosed by the outwardly and downwardly curved ends 6 of the top of the seat, said curved walls extending down to substantially the plane of the roll axes and being provided with inturned, curved edges 7 over which the paper will slip easily. The walls 6 are integrally connected at their ends with the end walls 5.

The end portions 5 of the flanges 3 at the front and rear of the seat are outset slightly, as shown in Fig. 3 and thus the curved portions 6 are slightly wider than the top of the seat from front to rear. This enables me to accommodate in the housings a roll of paper of sufficient width to entirely cover the seat from front to rear.

The housing ends 5 are provided with central, circular holes 8 which form the bear ings for the two rolls of paper.

Said rolls are wound on the card board rollers 9 which are detachably mounted in the roll boxes axially alined with the bearings 8.

The method I prefer for mounting the rollers 9 is as follows.

10 represents knobs having annular seats 11 to receive the annular washers 12 of ruleher or other material whose rear edge bears against the end 5 of the roll box. The inner ends of the knobs 10 are of reduced diameter to enter and be rotatably journaled in the bearings 8.

To the inner ends of the knobs 10 are attached expansible spring gripping members which are inserted into and engage the bores of the rollers 9.

Thus in Figs. 5 and 6 I have shown the preferred form of said roll engaging members, the same being formed of a metal blank shown in Fig. 6 having two substantially spearhead like ends connected by an intermediate portion; The end portions have serrated edges and are bent rearwardly along the dotted medial line a so as to present angular cross sections, and the ends are bent forwardly at right angles along the transverse dotted lines 5, thus forming the spring gripping members 13 of angular cross section connected at their bases by the neck 14 which is provided with a central hole 15 through whicha screw 16 is-inserted into the inner end of the knob 10 at its axis.

When a roller is placed in one of the boxes, the spring fingers 13 of a pair of Knobs are compressed together with the fingers and said fingers are inserted, through the bearings 8 intothe bores of the rollers 9 until the inner portion of the knobs are ournaled in the bearings with the washers 12 in snug frictional engagement with the end walls of the roll boxes. The gripping members 13 then expand within the rollers, the four lateral edges of the former engaging the internal wall of the roller.

Thus, the rollers may be rotated by turn ing one of their knobs, but said rollers Wlll not spin or turn too easily, owing to the friction between the washers and the ends of the roll housings.

In Fig. 7 I show a length 0 of the character of paper which I use in connection with my improved seat. Said paper is provided at proper intervals with orifices 17 of proper size'to register with the orifice 1 of the seat and provided with serrated edges, as shown at 18, so as to form flaps which will bend down and cover the perimeter of the orifice 1, sothat no portion of the body of the user will come in contact with the material of the seat. The orifices 17' in the paper are properly spaced apart, so that when the paper is moved sufilciently to draw one orifice 17. from registration with the orifice 1 and superimpose th next orifice 17 in said paper in registration with the orifice 1, the entire area of the seat is covered with freshly exposed and clean paper.

The paper C is rolledup on one of the rollers 9 and the roller is mounted, as above described, in one of the roll housings. The loose end of the paper is then drawn across the seat and its end attached in any convenient. manner to the empty roller which is then mounted in a similar manner in the other roll housing. The last named or re ceiving roller is then rotated by means of its linobuntil the first orifice 17 in the roll of paper U comes into registration with the orifice 1. After the closet has been used, the receiving roller is rotated so as to wind up the usedor exposed area of paper on the re ceiving roller and to unwind sufiicient fresh paper from the supply roller to position the second orifice 17 in registration with the orifice 1.

The operation is repeatedafter each use until all of th paper has been unwound from the supply roller and wound up on the receiving roller. The filled'receiving roller may then be removed and it and its burden burned, the empty supply roller shifted to the receiving side and a loaded supply roller installed.

In unwinding from the supply roller and winding upon the receiving roller, the paper traverses the rounded edges 7 and the rounded surfaces 6 without danger of catching or tearing, and insures a smoothly laid stretch of paper.

The paper when drawn across the seat will be disposed in a horizontal plane, bridging the concavities 2, but will be pressed down into said cavities when the closet is in use. If the paper becomes wet, it may remain depressed into said cavities, but the first rotation of the receiving roller will draw the paper from contact with said cavities, and the subsequent rotation of said roller will draw the paper across the seat.

I prefer to use ba g paper, as the same is of sufiicient tensile strength to insure its use without tearing.

It is evident from the foregoing that my improved closet seat is a very substantial improvement, insuring complete sanitation with but a minimum of trouble and expense. Thus in paid closets in public buildings, for the use of which a charge of five or ten cents is usually made, after each use, the attendant may enter the enclosure and wind up the used area of paper and simultane ously unwind a fresh covering for the seat.

What I desire to claim is 1. A roller mounting for use in. connection with sanitary water-closets and other purposes which consists of a pair of spaced apart supports provided with bearing holes, tubular rollers positioned between said sup ports in axial alinement with said holes, and journal members removably inserted from without into said bearing holes, said members being provided at their inner ends with expansible gripping fingers which are insertedpinto the ends of the rollers to detachably hold them in place.

2. A roller mounting for use in connection with sanitary water-elosels and other purposes which consists of a pair of spaced apart supports provided with hearing holes, tubular rollers positioned between said supports in axial alinement with said holes, and journal members removably inserted from without into said bearing holes, said members being provided at their inner ends with expansible gripping fingers which are inserted into the ends of the rollers and the outer ends of said journal. members being provided with knobs for the manual rola tion of said roller.

3. A roller mounting for use in connection with sanitary water-closets and other purposes which consists of a pair of spaced apart supports provided with bearing holes, tubular rollers positioned between said supports in axial alinement with said holes,

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journal members reinovably inserted from without into said bearing holes, said members being provided at their inner ends With expansible gripping fingers which are inserted into the ends of the rollers to detachably hold them in lace and a compressible Washer mounted on one of said journal bearings and in frictional Contact with the adjacent support to prevent spinning of the roller.

Signed at Pittsburgh, Pa, this 23rd day of Deeember, 1922.

HERBERT YEAKEL. 

